This is not party policy and it's not going to happen", a Conservative Party spokesman told the Press Association. In Johnson's cabinet reshuffle in September 2021, he promoted her to Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

Referred to by her grandson as a “mad old crone” and a “fecking mad witch”, she croaks these words, “The farm on the hill. Dorries, described as "a right-wing, working-class Conservative", [148] is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group. During the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, Dorries was reported as considering herself as a candidate, [110] but ultimately did not stand and instead endorsed Liz Truss.The Plot is the seismic, fly-on-the-wall account of how the saviour of the Conservative Party became a pariah. The Plot is an urgent look at how our government really operates, and I look forward to it adding to the current political discourse. After school she trained as a nurse and her profession frequently informed the political issues she took up - from Group B Strep testing for pregnant women to pushing for the time limit on abortions to be reduced. It makes The House of Cards appear tame, but this is no made-up tale, it’s for real and, for the first time, their political dark arts are about to be revealed. On 21 October 2010, the MP's standards watchdog criticised Dorries for maintaining a blog which would "mislead constituents" as to how much actual time she was spending in her constituency.

The Cabinet Secretary claimed on Wednesday that Ms Dorries sent “forceful” messages to senior civil servants threatening to use her platform in the Commons to find out why she was denied a peerage. Dorries says she witnessed "botched" abortions on two occasions, [13] [150] an experience that influenced her campaign to lower the point during a pregnancy at which an abortion can be performed. On 14 May 2020, Dorries was criticised after she retweeted a doctored video from a far-right Twitter account which falsely claimed that Labour leader Keir Starmer obstructed the prosecution of grooming gangs while he served as Director of Public Prosecutions. You know, the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, the Medical Christian Fellowship on this particular issue are absolutely vital because they give us the information. It will be published in September, just days before the Conservative Party conference in a move to cause the maximum political embarrassment for the Prime Minister.The release states that Dorries spoke to “dozens of inside sources” for the book to piece together “a profoundly shocking story of powerful, unaccountable forces operating behind the scenes who became the architects of a prime minister’s downfall. Told with unparalleled access, from multiple inside sources talking with astonishing candour, it reveals the shocking truth about powerful forces operating behind the scenes in the heart of Westminster and those who became the architects of a Prime Minister’s downfall. In that contest, Labour overturned a Tory majority of just over 20,000, suggesting that even the safest seats are now vulnerable. Senior party figures had made clear to local dignitaries that they would like the seat to go to a woman and presented the constituency with a shortlist of seven women and five men to underline the point. In February 2013, it was reported that Dorries was being investigated by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority over her expenses, although no specific details were given at this time.

The publisher said a “small delay is necessary to allow for the huge volume of material the author has consulted, the number of high-level sources spoken to and the required legal process needed to share her story”. On 29 August, Dorries was appointed to the position of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, [135] thereby vacating her seat in the Commons. Mrs Dorries, who has three teenage children, easily beat her 11 rivals and won the plum safe seat on the first ballot at the selection this weekend. The books Dorries is writing – which Wallace didn’t go so far as to claim he’d read – fall squarely into the saga market, which is known, rather dismissively, as the “clogs and shawls” genre, and which feature misery, poverty and abuse followed by a happy ending, set at some point in the past. Prior to John Bercow's election as Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2009, Dorries accused him of opportunism and disloyalty to the Conservative Party.Later, after Bernadette has (spoiler alert) died in childbirth, he takes up with an Englishwoman, Alice (“she had an air of stuck-up-ness about her which no one from Ireland ever had”). On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses. The ensuing by-election in Mid Bedfordshire, held on 19 October, was won by Alistair Strathern of the Labour Party, with the largest Conservative majority overturned by Labour in a by-election since 1945. She continued: "It is a fact that there is no affection for [Labour leader] Keir Starmer out on the doorstep. Osborne said on The Andrew Marr Show on 6 May 2012: "Nadine Dorries, for the last seven years, I don't think has agreed with anything either myself, David Cameron, or indeed most Conservatives in the leadership of the party have done.